This delish recipe comes from our friends, the Houston's. 

Using your hands (except I used our electric mixer), mix 12 oz. of peanut butter, 1 lb. box of powered sugar and 1 1/2 sticks of very soft butter and smooth it out into a 8x8 in. pan. (You will know its ready to be smoothed out when it quits sticking to your fingers or in my case the beaters.) Melt 6 Hershey's chocolate bars.  Spread melted chocolate on top and put into the frig until the chocolate hardens.

Oh.  My.  Goodness.  This is some yummy stuff. 

(As soon as the fast was over I broke out this recipe. lol) 

Reposted from December 2008:

One of our all time favorite Christmas activities!

We had eight little cookie makers plus our lil' guy, the red nose swiper.

Want to make your own?  Here's what you need:

Nutter Butters

Icing (we used sandwich baggies with the tip cut off to pipe the icing onto the cookies)

Red M&Ms

Small Pretzel Twists

Mini Chocolate Chips

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This is a great recipe for those days when you are short on time.  The kids can help with this one, too!

Ingredients:

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough (bars with precut squares or any cookie dough rolled into balls)

1 cup (6 oz.) Swirled Milk Chocolate and Peanut Butter Morsels (or any type of morsels you prefer)

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Grease 24 mini-muffin cups.  Place squares of dough (or balls) into prepared muffin cups; press down to make a deep well or cup.  Bake 9 to 11 minutes or until edges are set.  Remove from oven.  While still warm, fill cookie cups with morsels.  Morsels will soften and retain their shape.  Cool completely.  With tip of knife, remove cookie cups from muffin pan.

For birthday/holiday parties, I've even baked the cookies as above.  Cool completely.  In place of morsels, I fill the well or cup with colored icing, using a decorator's tip to give it a pretty swirl or design.  (Be sure the cookies are completely cooled or your pretty icing will melt into a liquidy mess.)

Preacher Cookies (also known as No Bake Cookies, Chewy Charlies...) are a favorite around our house.  They got their name because the cookies could be prepared quickly when a housewife looked out her window and saw the preacher riding up the mountain on his horse. By the time the preacher arrived, the cookies were cooling.

• 2 cups sugar
• 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/2 cup margarine (1 stick) or 1/2 cup solid vegetable shortening
• Dash salt
• 1/4 cup peanut butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 cups rolled oats

In a 2-quart saucepan combine the sugar, cocoa, milk and margarine. Cook and stir the mixture over medium heat until the margarine melts, and the sugar dissolves. Bring the pot to a boil, and reduce the heat slightly. Simmer the mixture for a good five minutes, until the chocolate forms a soft ball when dropped into a bowl of cold water. This is about 234° on a candy thermometer. Remove the pan from the heat when it reaches the soft ball stage. Add the salt, peanut butter and vanilla. Stir until the peanut butter is dissolved. Finally stir in the oatmeal. Drop the mixture from a tablespoon onto a sheet of waxed paper. Depending on the size of the cookie, the recipe makes 15 - 24 cookies.

Thinking of making this later today for my "monkeys".  Just right for a cold snowy day, don't you think?

2 cans of biscuits

1/2 stick of butter

Sugar

Cinnamon

Vanilla
 

Pre-heat oven to 375.  Lightly butter a bundt pan.  In a bowl combine 2 C of white sugar with a couple teaspoons of cinnamon and a dash of Brown Sugar. Cut each biscuit into 4 pieces. Roll the biscuit pieces in the sugar mixture until well coated. Drop the biscuits into your bundt pan.  In a small saucepan over medium heat bring 1/2 stick of butter, 1 C sugar and roughly 1 tsp of vanilla to a boil. Pour this evenly over the biscuits in the bundt pan. Bake for about 25-30 minutes.

The chief of our tribe loves oatmeal pie.  It is a Thanksgiving must.  So delicious and easy to make.

3 eggs (slightly beaten)

1 cup of sugar

1 cup of KARO syrup (light or dark)

1 t vanilla

2 T of butter (melted)

2/3 cup of oatmeal

unbaked pie crust

In a medium bowl, combine first five ingredients.  Add oatmeal and stir.  Pour into unbaked pie crust.  Bake at 350 degrees for 50 minutes.  Serve warm topped with vanilla ice cream. 

The chief likes them cold.  He's all about the gooey-ness. 

Substitute the oatmeal with 1 1/2 cups of pecans for a delicious pecan pie. My favorite is to combine oatmeal and crushed pecans.  Mmm...Mmmm!

 This post is linked to Works for Me Wednesday at We Are THAT Family and Love the Pie at Tidy Mom.

I couldn't help sharing these with you.

• 2 cups all-purpose flour (Spooned and leveled)
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 12 tablespoons (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
• 1 large egg
• 1/4 cup molasses

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  In a med. bowl, whisk flour, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt.  In a small bowl, place 1/2 cup sugar, set aside.  With an electric mixer, beat butter and remaining cup of sugar until combined.  Beat in egg and then molasses until combined.  Reduce speed to low; gradually mix in dry ingredients, just until a dough forms.  Pinch off and roll dough into balls (about 1 tablespoon).  Roll balls in reserved sugar to coat.  Arrange on baking sheets, bake 10 to 15 minutes. 

Enjoy this old-fashion cookie! 

This post is linked to The Ultimate Recipe Swap at Life As Mom.

Used a plain old box cake mix.  Cream cheese icing (can replace with cool whip).  Strawberries and strawberry glaze.